The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-07-16

study your own feelings, and re
they are tho indications
Of nature--hcr faithful responses
to your inquiries--rcsponses as
true as the answer Of the Delphlc
oracle to Cicero when he asked
.,llow shall ! proceed?" and its
reply was "tollow nature,
When you do this you build for
yourselves a sure foundation, and
say by every act Of your lie, with
old Apcllos, Il paint for posters
ty.n
True greatness consists IN an
entire command Of ones solf, and
true independence in the manage
ment Of ones resources, beth.
mental and physical in accordauco
with conscious Obligations and
moral right. Your independence
therefore, will render you proof
against any adverse Influences
whatever. in prosecuting that pur-
pose Of your life which you have
deliberately selected or chosen.
It's m old Roman proverbs TINT
"'rhe drop wears the stone, not
single force but by often falling !"
Your success will be not the
result Of one act but Of many.
The mind Of every Individual
has native power and energy
enough, il properly and porseyor-
ingly directed, to make 1t omi-
ncnt. perhaps even great. There
Is in every mnd 4 point Of ccn-i
tralization, 10 which all the uni
verse without directly tends.
The nerves Of sensation are the
telegraphic wires over which, us
public highways, intelligence
comes pouring into this central
point from q busy world without,
ana yet mysterious rs this may
seem, there is no intermingling or
confusion Of tho intelligence So
greatly diversified. But these
myriads of impressions, --momcn-
tarlly rcccived-produee as many
myriads of clear distinct and syn
chronous movements Of the mind
all III perfect harmony with the
nature Of those impressions.
Now let there BE 4 fixed and
settled object ii the mind, and
these public highways will contre
ia that, aud tho sense VIII really
become the tclographic stations 70
report 70 it whatever il congenial
70 itself, and thus by the perpet-
ual aggregation Of that knowledge
which is the element Of its LII
crcas, il must expand and ulti-
mately attain mn enyiablo pre-cm-
inonce III That department Il
which il belongs
1t will mattcr very little what
profession or line Of study you
may choose your temptation to bc
unsteady in it will be nearly the
same, and nothing but indepcnd-
ence and decision OF character
will cuablc you TO resist these
temptations aud steadily proseeut,
the purpose Of your life. Yoe
must remember The answer a
Euclid to his King, when rcquosi
cd TO simplify lis mathematics
"Therc is, yonr Majesty. no roy
al road TO Geometry" There arC
many things TO be purchased with
money, or obtained by conquesf
or scizod by power, but knowledge
you can possess only by long
hard, patient toll
The age III which we live is I
wondrous age, characterized by +;
daring inircpidlty, restless energy
brilliant conclusions Of genius
profound and glowing thought
and the Startling developments 0
science, which seem to have gath
cred round it a greatness and
grandeur we feel at liberty Il
suppose belonged to no other age
Wncn Philip put Alexander hi
son under the tuition OF Aristotle
he remarked-s'I thank the Gods
not so much for having gwen NJ
a son, as for having given him Il
me during the life Of Aristotle.
A false, artificial culture can
not be palmcd upon this thinkin.
age. Mem are not satisfied witt
the yeneering of mahogany {,
hide q baser wood, nor the pant
ing Of gold leaf TO hide a coarse
metal. They require the interio
to be true to what the exterio
indicates In this thinking ag'
mea are esteemed for what thel
know, not for outward posses
sions. When Demetrius la,
copturod the city Of Megara, anc
it was given up TO pillage by
lawlcss soldiery, no rpmcmberet
that the philosopher st;lpho dwcI
in it, and having, after a lonI
search. found him he kindly asle,